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The Unionist Party was the main centre-right political party in Scotland between 1912 and 1965. [1] Independent of, although associated with, the Conservative Party in England and Wales, it stood for election at different periods of its history in alliance with a small number of Liberal Unionist and National Liberal candidates.
Scottish nationalism has long interested political scientists and historians but has often been interpreted narrowly as the desire for full independence from the multi-national United Kingdom. A broader definition, however, reveals what this article calls the ‘nationalist unionism’ of the Scottish Unionist Party (1912–65), and its surprisingly nuanced view of Scottish national identity ...
- David Torrance
- 2018
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Notable casualties for unionist parties included Jo Swinson, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, who lost her seat in the East Dunbartonshire constituency to the SNP and this resulted in her resigning the party leadership.
This chapter examines Scottish unionism. The survival of the Scots union owed much to the party structure of Scotland, and of the British state. The Scottish Unionist party was deeply rooted in the political and intellectual history of Scotland, and brought together a Tory legacy of romantic nationalism with a Whig tradition of assimilation.
Feb 15, 2022 · The Scottish Unionist Party (SUP), originally formed in 1986 in protest at Margaret Thatcher’s Anglo-Irish Agreement, has been re-registered with the Electoral Commission (EC) after not running candidates in major elections since 2007. The party, which aims to “remove the SNP from all levels of government” and wants to effectively ban the ...
- Laura Webster
Abstract. Jim Bulpitt understood the UK as an eminently political creation, emphasizing the role of elites in managing diversity. He can be criticized for underplaying the ideology of union, for dismissing Labour unionism and for an excessively central and Tory perspective.
Dec 1, 2009 · That did not mean that few thought about union. But far from it being the Anglo-Scottish union which informed Scottish thinking, in fact the dominant influence on the modern Unionist party in Scotland was the union of Britain and Ireland in 1800, and that has had most historiographical attention. This is precisely the problem which Kidd addresses.
